Paediatric medico-legal reports
Care and Lifelong Needs Reports
In high-value claims, quantum turns on an evidence-based view of the child’s lifelong needs. We provide care and needs assessments addressing the care regime, therapies, equipment and life expectancy that feed the schedule of loss. You see the expert’s CV before you instruct. The report is written to the expert’s CPR Part 35 duty to the court. We act for instructing solicitors on either side.
Overview
What a care and lifelong needs report is
A care and lifelong needs report is an assessment of what the child needs, now and over a lifetime, to support the valuation of the claim.
Why it matters legally
When a care and lifelong needs report is commissioned
It is commissioned in severe injury claims, such as cerebral palsy and brain injury, once liability and prognosis are in view.
What the report covers
The ground a care and lifelong needs report covers
Who produces it
The specialist depends on the injury
A consultant paediatrician or the relevant specialist produces the medical needs assessment, alongside the non-medical experts the solicitor instructs on care costs.
Where it is used
Claims that rely on this report
Care and lifelong needs reports support cerebral palsy and child brain injury claims, and other severe child personal injury claims once liability and prognosis are in view.
FAQ
Care and lifelong needs reports: common questions
An evidence-based view of the care and support a child requires, which informs the schedule of loss.
No, the report addresses medical needs and prognosis; valuation is the solicitor’s and the costs experts’ work.
In severe injury claims, such as cerebral palsy and brain injury, once liability and prognosis are in view.
Yes, life expectancy considerations are addressed where they bear on the schedule of loss.
Swiftly on review of your enquiry, with the CV sent for approval before you instruct.
Instructing on a care and needs report?
Send your case details and we will allocate the right specialist swiftly, with a quotation and relevant CVs immediately upon enquiry.